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Court guidelines called for drug-abusing surgical tech Kristen Parker to be jailed for up to 24 years, but a panel of federal appeals court judges has upheld her 30-year prison sentence for shooting herself up with fentanyl-filled syringes and replacing them with used syringes that infected patients with hepatitis C.

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